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army -- or for the u.s. navy? >> sure, yeah. great question. so part of it was -- and i write about this in the book, you know, there was one moment when i was in bosnia, and i was actually in a shelter in a refugee camp, and i was with one man who had, who had his own family had suffered tremendously. and i was in the shelter with him, and i remember he said to me, he said, you know, i appreciate the fact that you're here, he said, don't get me wrong. he said i appreciate the fact that there's a shelter here for my family, i appreciate the fact that my kids can go to a kindergarten, and i'm glad there's food here, but he said if people really cared about us, they'd be willing to protect us. and i didn't know what to say to him at the time. i was only 20 years old. but i remember reflects on that later and realizing that what he said was true, that if there's anything in our life that we really do love, that we really do care about, that we're willing to respond to it of course with care and with compassion, but it's also the case of the things
army -- or for the u.s. navy? >> sure, yeah. great question. so part of it was -- and i write about this in the book, you know, there was one moment when i was in bosnia, and i was actually in a shelter in a refugee camp, and i was with one man who had, who had his own family had suffered tremendously. and i was in the shelter with him, and i remember he said to me, he said, you know, i appreciate the fact that you're here, he said, don't get me wrong. he said i appreciate the fact that...
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how much oil would it bring to the u.s.? >> the jobs created on the gulf coast section that we've currently have under construction, you mentioned that earlier, there's 4,000 people we put to work, professionals, you know, pipe fitters, and well welders, laborers. on the keystone portion, that's 9,000 direct jobs created as a result of a starting construction. melissa: are you frustrated how political this has gotten? >> obviously, it's not a place where any companiments to -- company wants to be, in a project that has attracted as much attention as this has done. we've done the best just to comply with the regulatory process and get the job done. obviously, not where we want to be, you know, it's been, as i said, over four years now, the most comprehensive review one would imagine for a project like this, but the benefits of that will be that americans will get the safest pipeline built. they will bring supplies to america in the safest way. melissa: how have you become political, and slowed down so much. what do you estima
how much oil would it bring to the u.s.? >> the jobs created on the gulf coast section that we've currently have under construction, you mentioned that earlier, there's 4,000 people we put to work, professionals, you know, pipe fitters, and well welders, laborers. on the keystone portion, that's 9,000 direct jobs created as a result of a starting construction. melissa: are you frustrated how political this has gotten? >> obviously, it's not a place where any companiments to --...
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desperate for money, we owed a lot of money, the u.s. allowed enormous debt to britain and all most important export was a crop tobacco which had $30 million a year. jefferson had one problem. the most important and influential fraiman cord which the french aristocrats were all abolitionists and they couldn't understand how we fought the war for universal liberty without freeing the slaves and they kept asking when is america going to free the slaves? so he began making promises that the emancipation was just around the corner, he was eminent waiting for opinions to write them. none of this was true but it was in our interest for them to say that but oddly enough jefferson did and absorb some of this radical feeling in france, and before he left, he stepped down the plan and told people about it, he told thomas paine and a number of other abolitionists out there that when he got back to america he was going to train the slaves and settle them on land as sharecroppers in the certainty that they would become good citizens and about the wou
desperate for money, we owed a lot of money, the u.s. allowed enormous debt to britain and all most important export was a crop tobacco which had $30 million a year. jefferson had one problem. the most important and influential fraiman cord which the french aristocrats were all abolitionists and they couldn't understand how we fought the war for universal liberty without freeing the slaves and they kept asking when is america going to free the slaves? so he began making promises that the...
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recently let the u.s. army as a general. we are a leader, an officer, a warrier, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. summed up, a great american. she serves as in wisconsin, wisconsin been her home. she has served as a deputy chief of army reserve. that is the highest ranking african american woman in the u.s. military. these three women are one more demonstration of the changing face of the united states military and the changing face of our society. i honestly believe and not just because i am the father of daughters and granddaughters, the 21st century will be the century of women. general anderson. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate that a standing ovation before i said anything. i appreciate that. thank you for the invitation to join you this afternoon. i also want to thank and i am very honored to be part of this discussion we are having, the conversation of a community about our transitioning service members. i am going to talk to in the next few minutes about what i know best -- what we are doing in the army rese
recently let the u.s. army as a general. we are a leader, an officer, a warrier, a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. summed up, a great american. she serves as in wisconsin, wisconsin been her home. she has served as a deputy chief of army reserve. that is the highest ranking african american woman in the u.s. military. these three women are one more demonstration of the changing face of the united states military and the changing face of our society. i honestly believe and not just because i...
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goodman: paul robesonwhen did woody guthrie meet paul robeson, the famous singer, actor, dogged by the u.s. government, by the fbi? they took back his passport. will kaufman: yeah. he would havei guess it would have been around in the late '40s, when he actually met robeson, because both of them were on the board of people's songs, which was an organization started by pete seeger as a means, again, of energizing the union movement through song. and he admired paul robeson very much. i don't believe he ever sang with them. i saw one letter in which he mentions having met him. but he certainly supported him. and he was there, of course, during thesethe peekskill riots of 1949. amy goodman: well, talk about the peekskill riots. exactly what happened? will kaufman: ok, 1949, august, late august, early september of 1949, the civil rights congress, through people's songs, got paul robeson to agree to sing a benefit concert at the golfing grounds up inor the lakeland picnic area up in peekskill, westchester county. and before robeson even got to the grounds, he neverin fact, he never even made it
goodman: paul robesonwhen did woody guthrie meet paul robeson, the famous singer, actor, dogged by the u.s. government, by the fbi? they took back his passport. will kaufman: yeah. he would havei guess it would have been around in the late '40s, when he actually met robeson, because both of them were on the board of people's songs, which was an organization started by pete seeger as a means, again, of energizing the union movement through song. and he admired paul robeson very much. i don't...